The results with Microsoft's app were sobering – Microsoft never got the Windows 10 stable as a Miracast receiver. There I had done a test with several systems at that time. How to use the Connect app is described in the blog post Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Miracast and the Connect app. Some years ago, I had blogged intensively about the topic of wireless streaming, especially with the Miracast standard (see links at the end of the article). So much for the theory … The Miracast disaster The corresponding Windows 10 machine should then be found by a Miracast source as receiver. To do this, the app, which is called 'Connect' in German Windows 10, has to be started. Then the Connect app is installed and you can use a Windows 10 machine with the appropriate equipment as a Miracast receiver. (Miracast Connect-App as optional feature) Then select the Wireless Display option and click Install. Go to Apps – Apps & features – Optional features and click on Add features.ģ. You must log in under an administrator account and go to the settings page.Ģ. The MVP colleague documented the steps to reinstall the feature on Windows Ten site.ġ. Windows Central took it up on the weekend so that it is now meandering through the web as a theme. We are now required to install the 'Wireless Display' optional feature to have the Connect app available. In Windows 10 version 2004, the Connect app is not installed by default. My laptop has Miracast Support, Miracast: Available, with HDCP (Found out by running dxdiag)Ī MVP colleague then replied and described that this app is no longer installed by default, but can be installed as an optional feature. Please let know, is it something that's not supported for this version of OS or what.? Post OS upgradation to Version: 2004, I can't find the Connect App One user has now noticed already in June 2020 that the Connect app for Miracast reception is missing in this Windows 10 version, as can be read in this Microsoft Answers forum post.

Cortana has been adapted so that it is no longer pre-installed, but can be reinstalled as an optional feature. Microsoft has declared a number of features as obsolete for the Windows Update (Version 2004) and is removing some of them (see Windows 10 Version 2004: Deprecated/removed features).

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